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About:
El Socorro is known for producing coffee of an exceptional cup quality, which reflects in their track-record of placing top 10 and above in the Guatemalan Cup of Excellence and winning in 2007, 2011, 2020, and 2023. The farm has been in Juan Diego’s family for generations, tracing back to Antonio Lopez Colom in the nineteenth century, before being sold and changing hands until it was bought back into the family by Mario and Maria de la Cerda in 1968. However, coffee production didn’t happen on the land until 1980 when their son Juan de la Cerda started planting coffee. Only 25% of the land is used to grow coffee, with most of the land being a natural forest. The shade trees for the coffee are native and grew in the area naturally, rather than being planted there naturally.
Coffee Varietal & Processing:
Pacamara is a hybrid between the Pacas and Maragogipe varieties, created in the genetic department of the El Salvadorean institute for Coffee Research. Interestingly, there’s an upwards of 20% chance that the plant fails to become pacamara and instead remains one of the two parent varieties due to their dominant genes. Diego’s pacamara undergoes a washed processing method with warm water to keep the fermentation time short, which will maintain the density and clean flavour of the bean.
Brewing Recommendations:
Recommended for mainly filter brewing. For lighter roasts, we prefer the results from percolation drippers such as Orea and V60. This particular coffee we’ve been preferring slightly shorter brew ratios and cooler brew temperatures in comparison to our usual approach to lightly roasted coffee
Dose: 12g
Grind: Medium filter grind (24-26 comandante clicks)
Water: 192g. 91*. 40-80 ppm
Brewer: Orea V3, Kalita wave paper
00:00 Slowly pour 30 grams of water in a spiral, ensuring the whole bed is saturated. Avoid
swirling or stirring at any point in the brew.
00:35 Another spiral pour to 110g. Use your kettle stream to ensure there’s no clumps of
coffee or orange-brown foam floating on top
01:15 Centre-pour to 192g. You can use a faster flow-rate here.
Allow the bed to fully drain. Our total brew time is between 2:00 and 2:10.
Transparency
Relationship: 1st Year
Quantity Purchased: 72 kg
Price Paid (£/kg): 17
Import Partner: Caribbean Goods